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Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton had put in a busy day. They had inspected the horrid concentration camp at Ohrdruf, visited the salt mine with its hoard of gold and art, traveled several hundred miles by plane and jeep. When they returned to General Patton's headquarters they were tired-and a little sick from the things they had seen at Ohrdruf. They dined, then sat in a big, sparsely furnished room, talking against the steady roar of supply trucks passing outside. Around midnight they went to bed. Eisenhower and Bradley took two bedrooms upstairs. Patton's heavy boots...
...horrid word censorship was hardly mentioned. Small, grey Edward M. Curran, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, simply called up Look Magazine's distributors, said that he found the March 20 issue offensive, wanted all copies "voluntarily" removed from Washington newsstands. While the subject was being batted back & forth between Look's lawyers and distributors, the word got out. The public quickly gobbled up all copies. Look promised to send no more...
Hangover Square (20th Century-Fox) is the excitingly horrid story of a large, bewildered composer named George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) who overworks himself into fits of amnesia. A Scotland Yard doctor (George Sanders), who is a pioneer in criminal insanity (the year is 1903), helps Bone realize that during these blank spells he may very possibly be a murderer. Bone is advised to relax. He tries to relax with a deadly poisonous music-hall beauty named Netta (Linda Darnell). When she contemptuously uses his infatuation as a means to her own evil ends, he proves the doctor was right...
...admirable in its interest and difficulty, the other loathe-some in its conditions. If the drama could only be theoretically or hypothetically acted, the fascination resident in its all but unconquerable . . form would be unimpaired, and one would be able to have the exquisite exercise without the horrid sacrifice...
Parson Weems sold his books at fairs, races, sittings of county courts from New York to Georgia-between times "beating up the headquarters of all the good old planters and farmers . . . regardless of roads horrid and suns torrid." He sold Paradise Lost, The Vicar of Wakefield, Robinson Crusoe, Cook's Voyages, the works of Voltaire, Tom Paine and Bunyan and Bard's Compendium of Midwifery, which he touted as "the grand American Aristotle...